Unjust & Unsolved

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The Innocence Project estimates that there are currently over 20,000 innocent people locked away in US prisons. These cases remain unsolved. Each week, Investigative Journalist Maggie Freleng tells the story of one of those people and takes a deep dive into the crime they were convicted of. Through her original interviews with the convicted, their lawyers, families, and friends, Freleng chronicles each inmate’s fight for exoneration and their hope that justice can still be served.

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Introducing "Murder in Alli...

05.13.2021

Hey, Unjust and Unsolved listeners! We're so excited to bring you the new show from the Obsessed Network, "Murder in Alliance." The new show dives deep into an episode we covered in "Unjust and Unsolved," reinvestigating the case in real ...

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05.13.2021 Introducing "Murder in Alliance: Ep. 1 Dead in the Water" Hey, Unjust and Unsolved listeners! We're so excited to bring you the new show from the Obsessed Network, "Murder in Alliance." The new show dives deep into an episode we covered in "Unjust and Unsolved," reinvestigating the case in real ...
02.04.2021 22: Cheri Hayden On Feb 23, 2008 a botched robbery took place leaving 68-year-old Patricia Landry dead. Witnesses said the driver of the vehicle that ran her over was a blonde woman in her 20s. Despite the age discrepancy, Cheri Hayden, a 45-year-old ...
01.28.2021 21: Brandon Spencer Halloween night 2012, 19-year-old Brandon Spencer and his girlfriend were on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles attending a Halloween party. Suddenly, shots rang out and it was pandemonium. Everyone scattered, ducked, and hid. There was screaming...it ...
01.21.2021 20: Sara Bennett Former appellate attorney and author Sara Bennett captures stunning, honest portraits of women serving life sentences in prison. She and Maggie talk about how women doing time differs from men, re-entry for women, and the humanity of the people we ...
01.14.2021 19: Andre Brown 1990’s Bronx, New York: The most violent decade in the city’s history in one of the most impoverished areas in the nation at the time, and college student Andre Brown was right in the middle. A drug turf war, teens ...
01.07.2021 18: Ralph Trent Stokes On March 11, 1982 three people were murdered during a robbery of a famous Philadelphia restaurant. 19-year-old Ralph Trent Stokes was arrested three days later and at trial after only 45 minutes of deliberation, Ralph Stokes was convicted of three ...
12.31.2020 17: The Prosecutors Brett and Alice are The Prosecutors. Both are real life prosecutors, co-workers, friends and co-hosts of the podcast "The Prosecutors." This week, Maggie interviews Brett and Alice about being on the other side of the cases Unjust & Unsolved covers. ...
12.22.2020 Announcement Hi everyone! We are off this week for the holiday break, but if still want to hear "Unjust & Unsolved", you can head over to Patreon for more bonus content: patreon.com/unjustandunsolved Happy Holidays!
12.17.2020 16: Tracy Alan Zornes On Feb 19 2010, Tracy Zornes and some friends were hanging out drinking. Tracy left to see his girlfriend and when he came back, the apartment he was at was on fire. Tracy, avoiding a previous warrant for burglary, fled. ...
12.10.2020 15: Diamantina Salinas Kolojaco This week's episode is absolutely insane. Diamantina Salinas Kolojaco and her lover Andres Mascorro did almost 2 decades in prison for the murder of her husband, before Proclaim Justice took their case after one of the most notorious serial killers ...
12.09.2020 Live Q&A Tonight with Ronnie Long Ronnie Long is celebrating 3 months out of prison after serving for 44 years for a crime he did not commit. Join us live tonight at 8pm EST on GetVokl for a Q&A; with Ronnie and his wife AshLeigh. Access ...
12.03.2020 14: Temujin Kensu On the morning of November 5 1986, 21-year-old Scott Macklem, a student at St. Clair Community College, was gunned down near his car in the school parking lot. Almost immediately, Temujin Kensu was homed in on as a suspect. The ...
12.02.2020 Live Q&A Tonight! We have a breaking news exclusive in John Brookins' case. Join us live tonight at 8pm EST on GetVokl for a Q&A; with John's wife Karen Brookins as she reveals breaking updates in the case and takes listener questions. Access ...
11.26.2020 13: Marty Tankeleff At 6 AM on September 7, 1988 17-year-old high school senior Marty Tankleff found both of his parents brutally murdered; stabbed and beaten. Almost two years later, Marty was convicted and sentenced to fifty years to life for their murders. ...
11.19.2020 12: Nikki Zinger On March 10, 1991 Nikki Zinger's mother Linda Holley was found dead in her Magnolia, AR, home. The crime was brutal. She was stabbed 12 times, bludgeoned and left for dead. A month went by with no arrests, and then ...
11.12.2020 11: John Brookins On December 20th, 1990 26-year-old John Brookins went to his friend Sheila Ginsberg's house to help her clean. Sheila was an older woman, 58, and actually the mother of his on and off again girlfriend Sharon. When John arrived he ...
11.05.2020 10: DeMarco Wilson On February 1, 1997, Charles Newsome was shot while driving his car in a parking lot in West Memphis, AR. Newsome was a known gang member and according to witnesses there was gunfire between him and people in the parking ...
10.29.2020 9: Jeffrey Havard On February 21, 2002 Jeffrey Havard was babysitting his girlfriend’s baby, Chloe Britt. Jeff was bathing her when she accidentally slipped from his hands and hit her head on the toilet. He put her to bed and everything was fine ...
10.26.2020 Introducing "Crimes of the Centuries" "Crimes of the Centuries" is a new podcast from the Obsessed Network featuring award-winning journalist (and crucial "Unjust and Unsolved" collaborator) Amber Hunt. Each episode tells the story of a case that might not be remembered today, but was huge ...
10.22.2020 8: Darrell Ewing On December 29, 2009 two cars pulled up to a Detroit intersection. In one was J.B. Watson, his girlfriend LaRita Thomas, and his cousin Phillip Reed. In the other, two black men. One got out and fired multiple shots at ...
10.15.2020 7: David Thorne In 1999, Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Ohio home while her two children were upstairs and one hid under the dining room table potentially watching the crime. Her ex-boyfriend David was instantly a suspect as the father of ...
10.08.2020 6: Charles Erickson On Halloween night in 2001, Columbia Tribune Sports Editor Kent Heitholt was brutally murdered in the Tribune parking lot. Two years later, Charles Erickson read a memorial in the paper about Heitholt and was convinced he and classmate Ryan Ferguson ...
10.01.2020 5: JJ Velazquez In 1998, JJ was sentenced to life for the murder of a police officer in Harlem, New York. The twenty-one-year-old father had an alibi that day, yet was placed in a lineup and identified as the shooter despite the alibi ...
09.24.2020 4: Rosa Jimenez In 2005 Rosa Jimenez was sentenced to life for the murder of a three-year-old child in her care. Twenty-year-old Rosa was babysitting twenty-one-month-old Bryan Gutierrez at her house when he came into the kitchen choking. Bryan was choking on a ...
09.17.2020 3: Jamie Snow March 31, 1991 Easter Sunday. Eighteen-year-old Bill Little was shot dead while working at the Clark Gas Station in Bloomington, Illinois. Almost a decade later, despite no physical evidence, a solid alibi, and passing a lie detector test, Jamie Snow ...
09.10.2020 2: Jermaine Smothers In 1996 Jermaine Smothers was sentenced to 29 years to life for the murder of Ernesto Flores. He was convicted despite passing a polygraph examination prior to trial and despite the exceedingly unreliable eyewitnesses who claimed that they saw him ...
09.10.2020 1: Ronnie Long In 1976 Concord, NC, a man broke into the home of a prominent white widow and violently beat and raped her. Ronnie Long, a 20-year-old black man, was given consecutive life sentences for rape and burglary. In a mostly segregated ...
08.14.2020 PREVIEW: Unjust and Unsolved From journalist Maggie Freleng and the Obsessed Network The Innocence Project estimates that there are currently over 20,000 innocent people locked away in US prisons. These cases remain unsolved. Each week, Investigative Journalist Maggie Freleng tells the story of one ...

Unjust & Unsolved

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Unjust & Unsolved episodes:

Introducing "Murder in Alliance: Ep. 1 Dead in the Water"

22: Cheri Hayden

21: Brandon Spencer

20: Sara Bennett

19: Andre Brown

18: Ralph Trent Stokes

17: The Prosecutors

Announcement

16: Tracy Alan Zornes

15: Diamantina Salinas Kolojaco

Live Q&A Tonight with Ronnie Long

14: Temujin Kensu

Live Q&A Tonight!

13: Marty Tankeleff

12: Nikki Zinger

11: John Brookins

10: DeMarco Wilson

9: Jeffrey Havard

Introducing "Crimes of the Centuries"

8: Darrell Ewing

7: David Thorne

6: Charles Erickson

5: JJ Velazquez

4: Rosa Jimenez

3: Jamie Snow

2: Jermaine Smothers

1: Ronnie Long

PREVIEW: Unjust and Unsolved